"Back to Your Majesty, the way to be a king lies in serving the country and the people, and if you want to make a great living, you should use strategy."

"The first thing in strategy is to cultivate obscurity in Taoguang, so Your Majesty doesn't have to think about what to do at this time, but only needs to do one thing, that is, to invite Qi Jiguang, transfer southern troops into Beijing, train troops, and really pro-military guards!"

Zhang Juzheng replied at this time.

"Training."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and read it to himself, and said, "This reminds me of the nine-character proverb that Zhu Sheng once dedicated to Taizu. ”

Then, Zhu Yijun asked again: "So these things about the official gentry paying food and working on errands are ignored?" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zhang Juzheng replied, and because he still had the duty to teach the emperor, and hoped that the emperor would know how to control people's hearts in the future, he patiently continued to explain, saying:

"Your Majesty, in the humble opinion of the ministers, if the country is governed by techniques, it should be based on yang conspiracy, this discussion about the official gentry paying grain as an errand is not so much that some people in the ruling ministers are unwilling to reform the system and leak it, but that the ministers deliberately leaked this intention, and the people of the world first have a material discussion about it, and it will not be that in the future, when the official gentry are really implemented on an errand and pay for food, because of the sudden levy, the gentry of all sizes in the world will be unbearable for a while."

"Especially for the ordinary gentry below the middle level who do not have extensive and fertile land, they will be unable to bear it at the beginning of knowing the intention of the imperial court, and their hearts will be excited, but as the discussion becomes deeper and deeper, when they realize that they are powerless, most of them will regain their senses, and they also know that the king's order is difficult to disobey, and when the system of the official gentry paying food and errands really begins to be implemented, they will not fiercely resist the new policy of the imperial court."

"As for those who are still unwilling to accept the official gentry to pay grain as an errand boy, I am afraid that they will only be dominated by the big gentry who have a wide range of fertile land, and they can only declare their authority."

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun nodded: "No wonder you have to train the troops first, and no wonder Qi Qing's family will suddenly take the initiative to ask their own soldiers to be pro-army, without avoiding suspicion." ”

Then, Zhu Yijun asked again: "Isn't Sir worried about what measures will be taken by those who still oppose the official gentry's unified payment of grain and errands to stop the new policy?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the imperial court only needs to be strong and strong, and you don't have to worry that they will strike first;"

"Because the first mover is often controlled by man;"

"In other words, if the imperial court takes action first, it will be easy to be controlled by it, so it is better to overstep the rules first and then control it!"

"In this way, they are made by the court; Even if they directly gathered troops to rebel, it would be more conducive to the imperial court to use troops against them than they did nothing now. ”

Zhang Juzheng continued to answer at this time, and said: "Just as Your Majesty was not biased because of Zhu Yanxian's impeachment of Jinyiwei, at this time, Your Majesty should not let people know their attitude quickly, but only wait for the discussion to gradually subside, and gradually someone overstep, before giving Thunder a blow." ”

"In this way, Your Majesty has a reason to use troops, and the people of the world dare not disobey it!"

Zhu Yijun nodded and said with a smile: "Then only train soldiers!" Mr. and I are thinking about the same thing. ”

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Whale as he spoke, and instructed: "The factory guard is still only investigating the situation of the internal and external ministers, as well as the situation of important officials and gentlemen, but there is no need to take action first, and do not take people for the time being, everything is only reported to me first." ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Whale responded.

Three days later, on the west side of the Qianqing Palace, the political affairs hall.

Zhu Yijun announced the meeting with the ruling ministers here, and in order to clear the acres of land and increase the number of soldiers.

As for the officials and gentry who paid grain and errands, after Zhang Juzheng made it clear to the ruling ministers that he would do so, he did not directly ask the Son of Heaven to agree and issue this edict.

And Zhu Yijun did not take the initiative to issue an edict.

Although there is a lot of noise about this matter outside, at the level of the ruling center, it is as if this incident has never happened.

It's like a pebble falling into the water, except for a few rounds of ripples, there is no movement.

"Your Majesty, starting from the fifth year of Wanli to the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, the whole country will end in Qingzhang;"

"After the approval of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Households, the Inner Court and the Ministry of Industry, and the number of the previous two pilot clearings, the two north, south and the thirteen political divisions of this dynasty have cleared a total of 1,547,058 hectares of cultivated land; In addition, a total of 281,484 hectares of cultivated land were added to the other nine borders; The total amount of newly added cultivated land in the country is 1,828,542 hectares, and the total cultivated land in the country was originally 5,182,155 hectares, but now it has increased by more than 3 to 5 percent. ”

"The grain stored in the Jingshi warehouse has reached more than 31,647,000 stones, which can support the officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion for eight years; The silver deposit in Taifu Temple has reached more than 4 million taels, and the silver deposit in Taicang has also reached more than 6 million taels. ”

"The internal carrier warehouse, the carrier warehouse, the supply warehouse, the A-shaped warehouse, the T-shaped warehouse, the C-shaped warehouse, the internal official supervisor, the Shangshan supervisor, the wine and vinegar noodle bureau, the Siyuan Bureau, the treasure banknote division, the salary division, the Guanglu Temple, the Jingrujing Sanwangfu, the Taichang Temple, the Guozijian, the sacrificial house, the Jingtong Ercang and Jimi and other towns, the Lumi warehouse, the border towns, the Taicang silver treasury and other yamen have a total of more than 2,120,000 taels of silver."

"This is all the rules for His Majesty to establish the examination results, the rules for reducing penalties at discretion, clearing the accumulation, reading the side salary, reducing the forced labor, dredging the river, and prohibiting galloping. He ordered the Confucian ministers to recompile the "Huidian", and ordered the ministers to pass the world to clear the fields and grain, Gehao right hidden, Su Xiaohu to compensate for the merits, and so that the officials are all in accordance with the law, the people do not add endowments, and they are for the loss, and Taicang can have eight years of accumulation. Since the beginning of the country, there has been no such abundant accumulation. ”

According to the political hall system determined by Zhu Yijun, all ministers who have been ordered to enter the political hall to participate in major politics are called ministers of political affairs, and can enter the political hall to participate in major politics.

Basically, the cabinet ministers, the six ministers of the Cabinet and the Privy Council, and the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have this qualification, and those who have this qualification at the same time will basically add the rank of three orphans or three dukes.

And Zhang Xueyan is also one of the ministers participating in politics, and on the day when the political hall summarized the achievements of Qingzhang Tianmu and decided to increase the number of soldiers, he first reported to Zhu Yijun about the achievements of Qingzhang Tianmu.

Zhu Yijun also listened carefully to Zhang Xueyan's report.

He remembered that in the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it was counted by the Hubu Shangshu Wang Guoguang and the Inner Court and the Ministry of Industry, and at that time, the true color of the income and the discount of silver were more than 18 million taels.

There are more now, naturally because the Qingzhang in this life is more thorough.

The so-called true color and silver are silver plus other physical objects, because in order to facilitate statistics, all kinds of wheat, grains, silk and other silver will be counted.

Naturally, there will be moisture in it.

Basically, the civil servants don't want the emperor to see too good financial figures.

From the public point of view, it is because they don't want the emperor to have the intention of spending a lot of internal and national funds, especially the national funds, in order to make the emperor thrifty, so the civil officials will lower the discount when folding silver.

For example, the cotton cloth handed over is worth 100 taels, and the silver is converted into 80 taels or even 50 taels, so that a large amount of state funds can be sold into cash and fall into their own pockets.

As a result, the statistics tend to be less than the real values levied by the officials.

But how much less depends on the situation of the officials.

It can only be said that in the early years of Wanli, perhaps the civil officials took the former into account more, and did not want the emperor to stop being thrifty because of the improvement in finances.

Historically, Zhang Juzheng discouraged Wanli's extravagance and waste on the grounds that the growth of Taicang's annual income in the sixth year of Wanli was not as good as that of Wanli for more than five years, and did not mention that the surplus in the sixth year of Wanli was still increasing, and also asked Wanli and his royal family to be more frugal.

Zhu Yijun also knew about this situation, but he had no intention of debunking it.

Because this kind of behavior is the unified behavior of the entire bureaucracy, unless he puts aside the civil bureaucrats and counts them himself, he can only allow this moisture to exist.

Even if Zhu Yijun asked the eunuch to do it, the eunuch would take the opportunity to do so.

For example, in history, Wanli asked the eunuchs to levy mining taxes, and in fact, he and the eunuchs divided the tax income into four or six parts.

Sixty percent were eunuchs.

And he, the emperor, can only get forty percent.

The historical Wanli can only be recognized.

The conversation turned back.

Even if the civil officials no longer want the financial figures to look too good, because the new policy has indeed been implemented for eight years, and the Qingzhang acres have indeed been successfully completed after three years, no matter how much they try to operate, they cannot hide the dazzling results on the books.

After all, they really can't be too ugly, because Zhu Yijun will check the accounts at any time.

Zhu Yijun personally checked the accounts of the household department in previous years, just like Qianlong.

He also found out that the price of silk folding in the transfer department was too low and there was obviously a difference of 60,000 taels, and therefore dismissed the left waiter of the Nanjing household department who was in charge of this item, so that Yan Qing, the governor of Sichuan, took over this post.

Zhu Yijun was still very satisfied after hearing the final figure of Qingzhang Tianmu, and nodded and looked at the privy envoy Fang Fengshi: "What about the Privy Council, can you agree on the specific number of new soldiers and the number of soldiers transferred to the pro-army guard?" ”

(End of chapter)